Who are the Palestinian prisoners released by Israel?

The Israeli-occupied West Bank has erupted successful celebrations aft 90 Palestinian prisoners, astir of them women, were released from Israeli jails arsenic portion of an Israel-Hamas ceasefire.

Families successful the West Bank waited until aboriginal connected Monday to person their loved ones, astir of whom had been detained without charge.

The ceasefire, which ended Israel’s much than 15-month warfare connected Gaza, besides saw the merchandise of three Israeli captives. More captives and prisoners are expected to beryllium released successful the coming weeks.

Here is what we cognize astir the Palestinian prisoners who were freed:

Who are immoderate of the salient Palestinians released?

The prisoners – 69 women and 21 children – were released astir 1am connected Monday (23:00 GMT connected Sunday). They were taken to the West Bank metropolis of Ramallah successful Red Cross buses.

Only 8 of the 90 prisoners were arrested earlier October 7, 2023, erstwhile Hamas-led Palestinian groups carried retired attacks successful confederate Israel. The attacks killed much than 1,100 people, saw astir 250 taken captive and triggered Israel’s warfare connected Gaza.

Israel killed much than 47,000 Palestinians during its violative connected Gaza, drafting disapproval for utilizing disproportionate unit against civilians and targeting hospitals and schools. It besides killed much than 850 Palestinians and detained much than 7,000 successful often convulsive raids crossed the West Bank.

Khalida Jarrar, person of the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and a feminist activist, was 1 of the astir salient prisoners released.

Jarrar has served situation presumption successful Israel since 2015 for being vocal astir Palestinian captive rights and being affiliated with an “outlawed” party. The PFLP is considered a “terrorist” radical by Israel.

In a connection successful 2016, New York-based Human Rights Watch said Jarrar’s repeated arrests were portion of Israel’s wider crackdown connected nonviolent governmental absorption to its half-century of subject concern of Palestinian lands.

Her astir caller apprehension was connected December 26, 2023.

The Palestinian’s archetypal apprehension came successful March 1989 during an International Women’s Day protestation astatine Birzeit University successful the West Bank. She was a master’s pupil astatine the time.

Jarrar emerged arsenic a feminist person arsenic she fought against sex stereotypes and worked for the empowerment of pistillate entrepreneurs successful the West Bank. She carried retired assemblage enactment successful Nablus, helping cleanable nationalist spaces and amended nationalist schools. She was aboriginal elected to the Palestinian Legislative Council.

She served arsenic the manager of the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association from 1994 to 2006.

“There’s this treble feeling we’re surviving in: connected the 1 hand, this feeling of state that we convey everyone for and, connected the different hand, this symptom of losing truthful galore Palestinian martyrs,” Jarrar told The Associated Press quality bureau aft she was released.

Another salient released captive is writer Rula Hassanein, an exertion for the Ramallah-based Wattan Media Network. She was arrested by Israeli forces connected March 19 arsenic portion of wide arrests of Palestinians.

Hassanein, 30, was tried earlier an Israeli subject tribunal astatine Israel’s Ofer Prison. She was charged with incitement connected societal media implicit posts that reportedly included retweets connected X and her look of vexation implicit the suffering of Palestinians successful Gaza.

How galore much prisoners volition beryllium released?

The archetypal signifier of the three-phase ceasefire is to past 42 days. During this time, 33 Israeli captives are to beryllium released, including pistillate civilians and soldiers arsenic good arsenic children and aged civilians.

In exchange, up to 1,900 Palestinian prisoners are to beryllium freed.

On time 1 of the exchange, three Israeli captives were released from Gaza: 24-year-old Romi Gonen, 28-year-old Emily Damari and 31-year-old Doron Steinbrecher.

Before their release, astir 100 captives were believed to beryllium near successful Gaza. It remains unclear however galore are inactive alive.

The remaining captives, too the 33 slated for merchandise successful the archetypal phase, are reportedly antheral soldiers who are to beryllium released successful speech for an unspecified fig of Palestinian prisoners.

How galore Palestinians are successful Israeli prisons?

Before the merchandise of the 90 prisoners connected Monday, determination were 10,400 Palestinians successful Israeli prisons, not including those detained successful Gaza during the past 15 months of war, according to the Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society.

“If they bash thing precise small to situation the presumption quo, they are faced with jailhouse time,” according to Al Jazeera’s Nida Ibrahim. Ibrahim said galore children person been imprisoned by Israel for charges related to throwing rocks astatine Israeli forces.

“The database of prisoners, the hundreds of names that person been released, are mostly serving administrative detention, which is simply a maneuver utilized by Israel to support radical successful situation indefinitely without charges,” Ibrahim said.

Prison conditions

“I near hellhole and present I’m successful heaven. We’re each retired of hell. They utilized to interruption us, bushed us, occurrence teardrop state towards us,” Abdelaziz Atawneh, a lad freed from an Israeli situation connected Monday, told the media.

“There’s nary food, nary sweets, nary salt,” helium said.

Israeli prisons are notorious for mistreatment of Palestinian prisoners and observers commented connected however Jarrar appeared to beryllium frail successful quality compared with however she looked astatine the clip of her latest arrest.

United Nations agencies, investigators and quality rights organisations person documented arbitrary arrests, inhumane and degrading treatment, torture and deaths of Palestinians successful Israeli custody.

On the different hand, the captives freed and sent to Israel seemed to beryllium successful bully health, Israeli media reported.

The 3 captives, “together with their mothers, conscionable landed astatine a hospital, wherever they volition beryllium reunited with the remainder of their families and person aesculapian treatment”, the Israeli subject said successful a statement. The 3 released captives are astatine Sheba Medical Center successful Tel Aviv.

In April, Dr Adnan al-Bursh, caput of orthopaedics astatine Al-Shifa Hospital successful Gaza City, died successful Israel’s Ofer Prison. His household said al-Bursh was tortured to death.

“The merchandise of Palestinian prisoners, including women and children, does not mean that the conditions of captivity person changed. Israeli negotiators insisted that thing volition alteration wrong Israeli prisons,” Basil Farraj, an adjunct prof astatine Birzeit University, told Al Jazeera.

“This is really precise worrisome, and it explains wherefore families were gathered to person the loved ones due to the fact that they cognize the hellhole that [the prisoners] person been undergoing is brutal.”

Farraj added: “This shows that this carceral authorities is intended to interruption Palestinian prisoners. It intentionally tries to interruption their tone and soul.”